Historical-fiction

“It was necessary to be afraid in order to have courage.” SYNOPSIS It’s 1983, London. Cora Seaborne’s domineering husband has died, giving her free rein over her own life. She leaves crowded London for coastal Essex, accompanied by her eleven-year-old son, Francis, and his nanny as well as her fiercely protective friend, Martha. While strolling …

“If you wake up in the morning, it is a good day.” Synopsis April 1942, Lale Sokolov, A Slovakian Jew is being transported to the concentration camp Auschwitz. On discovery that he speaks several languages, he is quickly put to work as the Tätowierer; permanently marking his fellow prisoners, as well as the love of …

“I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be silent with.” SYNOPSIS World War Two is over. Juliet Ashton, a succesful writer, is looking for her next story when …

“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, “Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?” SYNOPSIS In The help we follow the three women Aibileen, Minny and Skeeter. The first two black maids and the latter a white …